Green Books imprint: 155 books
Living on One Acre or Less
How to produce all the fruit, veg, meat, fish and eggs your family needs
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
You don't need a huge parcel of land to start your own mini-farm and live more self-sufficiently. With an acre, or even a half-acre, you can juggle a job, family, and still grow fruit and veg and even have some chickens, pigs or sheep. Morgan takes the reader through the basics of a starting your...
How to Grow Food in Your Polytunnel
All Year Round
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
With all the information you need to use your polytunnel to its full potential, this book shows make the most of this precious covered space. It includes a detailed crop-by-crop guide to the growing year, dedicated chapters on growing for each season, and a sowing and harvesting calendar to help with...
How to Store Your Garden Produce
The Key to Self-Sufficiency
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
This modern guide to storing and preserving your garden produce enables you to eat home-grown goodness all year round. The easy-to-use reference section provides storage and preservation techniques for the majority of plant produce commonly grown in gardens and allotments. Storing your garden produce...
Weeder's Digest
Identifying and Enjoying Edible Weeds
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This practical and attractive guide to identifying and using the many edible varieties of weed will appeal to gardeners, botanists, and horticulturalists, as well as to anyone with an interest in controlling weeds in eco-friendly ways. The main part of the book provides full details of more than 45...
by Charles Dowding
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
It is possible, with the help of this book, to enjoy an abundance of vegetables at the darkest time of year, whether stored or ready for harvesting when needed. It also covers growing for the “hungry gap” from April to early June. Not much grows in winter, but a well-organized plot may nonetheless...
Organic Gardening
The Natural No-dig Way
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
In this book, Charles Dowding shares the wealth of his experience, explaining his approach to soil and plants and revealing the range of techniques that have enabled him to grow healthy and vibrant crops for decades. His success is based on a key principle of “no dig”—not digging. This enhances...
Salad Leaves
Organic Growing from Pot to Plot
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
This compendium of practical methods for growing a wide variety of salads throughout the year will inspire you to grow your own greens, whether on a windowsill, in your garden, or on your allotment. Here is all the information you need for productive, healthy, and tasty salads. The subtleties of salad...
Organic Futures
The Case for Organic Farming
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Presenting an overwhelming argument for replacing modern farming methods with organic techniques, this book explores the history, politics, and practicalities of organic farming. Adrian Myers shows how the current techniques of agriculture and horticulture based on chemical fertilizers, which inevitably...
Miscellany for Garden-Lovers
Facts and folklore through the ages
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Here, the craft of gardening, its rich history, wisdom and folklore will entertain, inspire and stimulate the imagination. A Miscellany for Garden-Lovers takes a stroll through gardening curiosities from ancient Egyptian wisdom to the world of garden gnomes: from discovering early garden tools to...
Creating a Forest Garden
Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Offering inspiration for all gardeners, this book features beautiful color photographs and illustrations throughout, and is divided into two parts. Part One looks at why and how to grow particular crops and how to look after them for maximum health. Part Two features more than 100 perennial edibles...
Polytunnel Handbook
Planning/Siting/Erecting/Using/Maintaining
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
A polytunnel can be used as an affordable, low-carbon aid to growing your own food all year round, and this manual looks at all aspects of using a polytunnel, from planning your purchase to harvesting the rewards. It includes a step-by-step guide detailing how polytunnels are constructed and maintained....
Media, Ecology and Conservation
Using the Media to Protect the World's Wildlife and Ecosystems
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
This book focuses on global connectivity and the role of new digital and traditional media in bringing people together to protect the world's endangered wildlife and conserve fragile and threatened habitats. New media offers opportunities for like-minded individuals, community groups, businesses,...
Fair Economics
Nature, money and people beyond neoclassical thinking
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Alternative economics for the 21st centuryModern economics bases its view of the world on assumptions about nature and people laid down by Adam Smith, nearly 300 years ago, in a time when people traveled by horse and carriage and wrote by the light of candles. We now live in a globally connected,...
Food from Your Forest Garden
How to Harvest, Cook and Preserve Your Forest Garden Produce
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Forest gardening—a novel method of growing edible crops in different vertical layers—is attracting increased interest for gardens large and small. When it comes time to harvest, however, making the most out of the produce can be a daunting proposition. This expert guide offers readers creative...